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Dirtsheets sponsored by Andre the Giant Appreciation Thursday:

Originally Posted by Observer Today would have been the 70th birthday of Andre The Giant. That has led to a lot of Andre talk today. There is a story in the New York Daily News. There is a photo in that story of Andre with Chuck Wepner, who is 6-foot-5, which pretty much gives away he wasn't 7-feet tall. When that match took place in 1976, it was reported that Andre was 6-foot-9 and 370 pounds.

Link to the NY Daily News article: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...icle-1.2642652

The WON reports that we will likely see a lot more of Stephanie McMahon heading into and through the fall. As was reported earlier this week, McMahon’s book is set for a September 27th release date and it is expected that she will be featured heavily through that date. Stephanie is being marketed with the book as a popular part of WWE with a heavy social media presence, meaning that WWE will go heavy in social and mainstream press in promoting the book. McMahon is being pushed as the business face of the company, making it even more likely that she’ll be featured prominently to promote the book.

Would explain her sudden face or face-like turn the past couple of weeks.

Originally Posted by Observer Zack Sabre Jr., who was scheduled to defend the PWG title tomorrow night against Michael Elgin, but is out of action, suffered a lesion to his right forearm in a 5/13 match in Magdeburg, Germany in a match with Big Daddy Walter. The match was immediately stopped and he was rushed to the hospital. The rupture to the forearm was caused by a collision into the post that left a 4 centimeter cut that needed five stitches. He'll be out of action for a few weeks, returning on 6/12 for a match with Revolution Pro Wrestling, where he faces Kurt Angle.

In terms of WWE's Cruiserweight tournament, he'd be back about 2 weeks before the 1st set of tapings.

Originally Posted by PWI TNA President Dixie Carter, Executive Vice President (Creative & Talent Relations) John Gaburick and Chief Strategy Officer at TNA Entertainment Eric Sherman are scheduled to travel to India this weekend, PWInsider.com has confirmed. The trio are heading to India for meetings with their broadcast partner SONY 6.

Likely setting up dates for the required India tours in order to stay on air in the country. Missed out on doing last year's tour due to money problems and been rumored they might have to do an extra tour this year to make it up.

Originally Posted by PWI Goldust noted today is the eight year anniversary of the day he decided to become sober. Congratulations to him on the big milestone.

https://twitter.com/goldust/status/733284829085761537

Owens has been impressing a lot of people with his work on the mic and in the ring and it has turned Vince McMahon into a big supporter of his. Vince is reportedly past his issues with Owens look and its also been reported that he is currently penciled in for a main event push once his feud with Zayn ends.

With Emma currently sidelined due to injury, there is talk behind the scenes of Eva Marie becoming Brooke’s new partner.

Originally Posted by Observer AAA will be remaining on The Fight Network in Canada after all. The deal was put together by Court Bauer, who is no longer with the promotion, and AAA had expressed issues with The Fight Network signing a deal with CMLL. The CMLL and AAA shows will be airing together on Thursday nights.

Originally Posted by Observer The Saturday replay was canceled after only four weeks, so TNA is down to just one airing at 9 p.m. on Tuesdays. In theory that hurts because TNA’s deal with Pop was a revenue sharing deal but there really has been very little revenue from advertising to be shared (a 30 second spot on Impact goes for $335), and less than little for the replay show so it’s not really a financial hit. It’s a minor exposure hit but it’s not like TNA is doing anything with its exposure. The scary part is more just how quickly Pop nixed the show after moving it. The whole idea of the replay show is to hit the West Coast audience in prime time. Destination America last year had multiple replays and ended up canceling them early, but always kept the one replay even after the decision was made to cancel the show. There was a story going about how Pop TV did its upfront presentation for the 2016-17 television season, there was no mention at all of TNA, which is true, but Pop’s upfronts were in late March. So at least dating back to that time they already had no plans to promote TNA as key programming on the station going forward.

New details regarding the POP-TNA tv situation at the moment. Turns out POP TV made the decision to drop all support for TNA as early as March of this year.

Originally Posted by Observer With all the social media talk, an audit showed that 35 percent of the WWE’s twitter followers were fake, as in not actual humans. That isn’t unusual in the Twitter world. For a comparison, UFC is almost identical with 36 percent fake and that’s about what would be expected. John Cena’s are 24 percent fake, which is lower than many celebrities.

Originally Posted by Observer With 7/4 coming on a Monday, it’s a lock that the lowest rated Raw of modern times, if not all-time, will be on that date. But it’s a number not even worth worrying about because it won’t signify anything.

Real issue will be if either the bounce from the next week ends up being weak or lower than the non-holiday week prior. RAW and/or Smackdown had a couple of weeks like that last year where the bounce back was lower than the 2 weeks prior.

Originally Posted by Observer Regarding the releases, the Steve Lombardi release was partially due to what somebody said was a small mistake he made that gave them cause for letting him go.

Some other sheet news includes:

• Sports Illustrated had a recent article about a few Andre the Giant stories from back in the day. http://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2016...trated-profile
• ROH announced Stevie Richards recently signed a contract with the company. His debut will occur at the June 3rd show in Illinois.
• Apparently TNA completely forgot to promote an upcoming ppv occuring tomorrow and includes several former TNA talents since it was taped a while ago.
• SyFy currently rumored to be carrying WWE shows again after recent channel listings had a replay for RAW planned to air tomorrow. Unlike the Hulu replay, SyFy's replay is rumored to be 2 hours long. http://officialfan.proboards.com/thr...21/raw-on-syfy
• According to the Observer, the official reason Lucha Underground fired MVP a while ago was due to his podcast show spoiling stuff that hadn't aired yet this season. Catrina revealing herself as a old sorceress ended up being the breaking straw for LU even though the podcast and guests were praising the show a lot.
• Observer also revealed LU had plans to bring back Konnan for Season 3 prior to his big fallout with their parent wrestling company AAA.
• According to Pro Wrestling Sheet, the state of Kentucky is currently in negotiations to bring WWE shows and ppvs back to the state. The state is working on a new sports commission which would lessen some of the restrictions for live events.
• In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, baring a sudden major injury Kevin Owens is set to become the 2nd wrestler in WWE history to be on every card for a ppv show (not counting Specials or pre-show matches) within his debut year in the company. The other person to do the same was the Undertaker during his first year in the WWF.